-- ... Deena Larsen dlarsen@... http://www.chisp.net/~textra Come on over to explore the amazing possibilities in hypertext ... WINCHESTER'S NIGHTMARE A...
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treasure.mountain
treasure.mountain@xxx...
Nov 1, 1999 5:17 pm
... But then one still has to figure out how to protect those last or key chapters! Pat ... Thanks for using eBook-List, Discussion about Electronic Books ... ...
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Richard Seltzer
seltzer@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 2, 1999 12:18 am
Just got the Nov. 8 issue of Time Magazine today -- focused on the 21st century. And I was delighted to see Michael Hart profiled as a visionary in "People to...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 2, 1999 4:01 am
... As if they actually sent me the copy they said they would, so I have no idea what is in there. . .hee hee. . . . Thanks! So nice to hear from you!! Michael...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Nov 2, 1999 9:19 am
off to hot springs, arkansas, for a week, as my crew is vidshooting the "grand slam" there -- a performance poetry competition with over $3,000 in prize money....
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Edward Barrow
edward@xxxxxxx.xxxxx....
Nov 2, 1999 6:38 pm
I'd like to introduce to this thread the subject of Rights Metadata. Digital rights management and electronic copyright management systems (ECMS) need rights...
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John Erickson
JErickson@xxx.xxxx
Nov 2, 1999 7:58 pm
Hi! I applaud Ed Barrow's mentioning here of rights metadata in the DRM context; rights metadata has been an ongoing topic of discussion in the DOI community ...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1999 6:03 pm
len2 Laopaul "K. Kay Shearin" <poach@...> This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter for Wednesday, November 3, 1999 Etexts Readable By Both Humans and...
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Deena Larsen
textra@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 4:12 am
... -- ... Deena Larsen dlarsen@... http://www.chisp.net/~textra Come on over to explore the amazing possibilities in hypertext ... Thanks for using...
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David P. Dillard
jwne@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxxx...
Nov 4, 1999 3:03 pm
REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW: The Encarta Africana 2000 from Microsoft is positively reviewed and Temple's own Molefi Kete...
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Charles Hall
chall@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 4, 1999 5:10 pm
Nice article on R.R. Donnelly and Microsoft - http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991104/wa_il_micr_1.html I don't know if Donnelly will survive in the brave, new...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 4, 1999 5:42 pm
... Donnelly has been involved in Open eBook since day one. If anybody has a good chance of making the transition, it's them. I wonder, though, how much ...
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Glover, Danny
danny@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 4, 1999 6:41 pm
Hello all, In my role as the associate editor of IntellectualCapital.com (http://www.intellectualcapital.com), I am writing a story on/review of relatively new...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 4, 1999 7:08 pm
... As an author and a technologist, I find Fatbrain's pricing model troubling. I mean, how are they justifying taking 40-50% of the take on their...
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Richard Seltzer
seltzer@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 4, 1999 7:55 pm
To me, it's the based rate of $1 per month per item to archive articles etc. is the most troubling piece of the business model. That is an outrageous price on...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@xxxxxxxxxxx....
Nov 4, 1999 8:41 pm
... At a guess, they're currently charging this much Because They Can. It should be interesting to see what happens to their pricing once they realize they're...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 4:04 am
From: Ben Trafford <bent@...> ... I read that all as nothing more than marketing hype. People "know" that text is hard to read on the computer due...
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Jim Battan
jim@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 5:57 am
I published my book on "Information Systems Management" to fatbrain's eMatter when it debuted a few weeks ago. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one ...
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Richard Seltzer
seltzer@...
Nov 5, 1999 11:35 am
... Ebooks are great. But hosting services that act as vanity publishers are not. ... The storage fee is not trivial. $1 per month per item. Consider the ...
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Deena Larsen
textra@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 6, 1999 2:00 pm
Apologies for cross-posting The Monthly Hypertext Chat is cancelled for November 7. Instead, we recommend attending: CAULDRON & NET DISCUSSION: SUNDAY NOVEMBER...
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zendog
zendog@xxxxxxx.xxxxx....
Nov 5, 1999 1:45 pm
The road to failure is crowded with those who have underestimated Microsoft. MJ ********************************************************* Millard Johnson --...
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Jon Noring
noring@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 2:49 pm
... Richard, I find most of your points very interesting and thought-provoking, but I must admit I find the above (which you have said or implied before ) to ...
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Laura Kecherson
breezy@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 3:03 pm
... I'm really interested in the market research you've done to arrive at this conclusion. Will you share the statistics and details of your research on this...
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Richard Seltzer
seltzer@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 3:31 pm
... Sorry if my message was not clear. I'm not saying that the author with a single work or a small number of works doesn't deserve to get paid for his/her...
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Charles Hall
chall@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 3:23 pm
I just heard that the book "Blown to Bits" will be coming out as a RocketBook soon. Many thanks to whoever on this list refered to this book a while back. I ...
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Richard Seltzer
seltzer@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 3:58 pm
... I am speaking from personal experience, from making my works available for free through my Web site (www.samizdat.com) over the last four years. A few...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 4:19 pm
... Yes; I see this as being a major problem. For why I think so, read on... ... highlighting, ... OEB doesn't preclude all sorts of typographical magic,...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 4:22 pm
... And the road to success is crowded with those whom Microsoft has underestimated. I suspect that the e-book community comprises the latter, rather than the...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@xxxxxxxxxxx....
Nov 5, 1999 5:37 pm
... conform ... If so, then Microsoft is lying about OEB compliance. Stylesheets are part of the OEB standard; they have to be, to handle non-HTML tagging. If ...
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VIPP -
vippub@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 6:07 pm
eBookNet http://www.ebooknet.com/ Vip ... Thanks for using eBook-List, Discussion about Electronic Books ... Post Message: ebook-list@... Get...
